The medical examiner is investigating how an 18-year-old man died while in the custody of Albuquerque police.

Officers were called to a smoke shop in the 3200 block of Coors after someone said they saw two men walk in with guns about 8:30 p.m. Monday, police said. While police were questioning the two men at the scene, one of them collapsed and died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.

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"The individual was being detained, being questioned and all of a sudden became ill for unknown reasons," said Albuquerque police spokesman Jeff Arbogast.

The owner of the smoke shop said he knew one of the men. The owner said that man had contacted him the night before and asked if the owner would be interested in buying some guns. The owner said that was the reason the men had come into the store carrying the weapons.